My Animal is a gray wolf (Canis lupus)

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The Gray Wolf is a living thing because it can....

The Gray wolves live in North America and Eurasia. They have the most grey wolves there.

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1) Grow and develop

The females grow 80 - 140 pounds and the males grow 100-170 pounds and females are usually
five feet long and two feet at the shoulder and male wolves are 5 - 6.6 feet long, mostly 6 and are three feet a the shoulder.Historically, Grey wolves have the largest range of any land mammal, other than people. Grey wolves have lived in all habitats in the Northern Hemisphere except for tropical forest. Grey wolves tend to occupy forests, tundra and grassy plains as well as deserts and mountains.

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2) Reproduction

Gray Wolves breed once a year between January and April. Female and male wolves reach sexual maturity between 2 and 3 years.
When gray wolves mate they usually stays together for life. After they mate the female makes a den for raising the pups. The den is usually in
a cave or a base.

3) Characteristics

They run in packs and hunt in packs.They take about 5 hours to plan their attack on their prey. They have razor sharp teeth and
piercing eyes that allow them to hunt both day and night. Spine chilling howl that terrifies all of there prey.They have thick fur that
helps them adapt to winter climates.Grey Wolves have a grey coat with interspersed yellow and pepper colored flicks which seep through from the base of their thick fur. Their coat has a kind of 'grizzled' look about it. The length of the Grey Wolf varies between 50 and 70 inches long from nose tip to tail tip. A third of this length is the length of its tail.




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4) video sources

1 Gray wolf sleeping

Gray Wolf ***

2 Gray Wolves hunt Caribou

Gray Wolves Hunt Caribou | North America


5) Sources

**Gray** **wolf** - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**National Geographic** | **nationalgeographic**.com

//Gray Wolf//



Food
The gray wolves pups before 45 days days there feed milk from there mother but after 45 days they start eating caribou,giraffe,and many more.
natural diet
Grey wolves prefer ungulates---hoofed animals such as moose, elk and caribou. They will eat smaller mammals such as rabbits if necessary. They are foragers and will eat animals that have died from disease, starvation or another cause.
habitats
Grey wolves have lived in all habitats in the Northern Hemisphere except for tropical forest. Grey wolves tend to occupy forests, tundra and grassy plains as well as deserts and mountains.
Shelter
Wolves are pretty tough so they hardly ever sleep in shelters. But when they have pups the mother and the pups stay in a den.


Kingdom:
[[/wiki/Animal|Animalia]]
Phylum:
[[/wiki/Chordate|Chordata]]
Class:
[[/wiki/Mammal|Mammalia]]
Order:
[[/wiki/Carnivora|Carnivora]]
Family:
[[/wiki/Canidae|Canidae]]
Subfamily:
[[/wiki/Caninae|Caninae]]
Tribe:
Canini
Genus:
[[/wiki/Canis|Canis]]
Species:
C. lupus


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